Football at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Men's tournament

2009 Men's Maccabiah football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Israel
Dates	12 July - 22 July
Teams	17 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina
Runners-up	United Kingdom
Third place	Israel
Fourth place	Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played	40
Goals scored	145 (3.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tzahi Elihan (4 goals)
Best player	Paul Hakim

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The men's association football tournament at the 2009 Maccabiah Games was held in Haifa, Israel from 12 July to 22 July.

For these Games, the men competed in a 17-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 12 July, the day before the Games' Opening Ceremony. The teams were grouped into four pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool will advance to an eight-team single-elimination bracket. The Netherlands pulled out just one month before the competition.^[1]

Venues

The city of Haifa served as the venue for the 2009 Maccabiah Games - men's open football tournament.

Haifa	Haifa	Haifa	Haifa
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium	Neve She'anan Stadium	Ketzef Field	Avi Ran Field
Capacity: 14,002	Capacity: n/a	Capacity: n/a	Capacity: n/a

Originally, Neve She'anan Stadium was chosen to host the final. However, once the draw took place for Maccabi Haifa's UEFA Champions League qualifiers and there was no conflict with the tournament end date, the venue was changed to Kiryat Eliezer Stadium.

All times are Israel Standard Time (UTC+2).

Preliminaries

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	4	3	0	1	9	3	+6	9
Canada	4	3	0	1	8	5	+3	9
Russia	4	2	1	1	17	2	+15	7
Switzerland	4	1	1	2	7	8	-1	4
Germany	4	0	0	4	1	24	-23	0

Canada v Israel

July 12, 2009 09:00 UTC+2

Canada	0 – 3	Israel
	(Report)	Haleili  44' Atdjanov  64' Elihan  88'

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Switzerland v Germany

11:00

Switzerland	4 – 1	Germany

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Switzerland v Russia

July 13, 2009 09:00

Switzerland	1 – 1	Russia

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Germany v Israel

11:00

Germany	0 – 3	Israel
	(Report)	Elihan  26' Maman  57'  66' (o.g.)

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Israel v Switzerland

July 15, 2009 09:00

Israel	3 – 0	Switzerland
Moshe  64' Haleili  73' Elkabetz  88'	(Report)

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Russia v Canada

11:00

Russia	0 – 1	Canada

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Russia v Germany

July 16, 2009 09:00

Russia	13 – 0	Germany

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Canada v Switzerland

11:00

Canada	3 – 2	Switzerland

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Germany v Canada

July 17, 2009 09:00

Germany	0 – 4	Canada

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Israel v Russia

11:00

Israel	0 – 3	Russia

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7
Australia	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Chile	3	1	0	2	4	8	-4	3
Peru	3	0	0	3	3	10	-7	0

Peru v United States

July 12, 2009 09:00

Peru	0 – 4	United States

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Chile v Australia

July 13, 2009 09:00

Chile	0 – 1	Australia
	(Report)	Bloch  90'

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

United States v Chile

July 15, 2009 09:00

United States	5 – 0	Chile

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Australia v Peru

11:00

Australia	2 – 1	Peru
Ritz Rischin

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Peru v Chile

July 16, 2009 11:00

Peru	2 – 4	Chile

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

United States v Australia

July 17, 2009 11:00

United States	0 – 0	Australia

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	12	3	+9	7
South Africa	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
Sweden	3	0	1	2	5	9	-4	1
Venezuela	3	0	1	2	5	14	-9	1

Mexico v Venezuela

July 12, 2009 09:00

Mexico	8 – 1	Venezuela

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Sweden v South Africa

July 13, 2009 09:00

Sweden	0 – 2	South Africa

Referee: Attendance:

Mexico v Sweden

July 15, 2009 09:00

Mexico	3 – 1	Sweden

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

South Africa v Venezuela

11:00

South Africa	2 – 0	Venezuela
Zadikov  70' Cohen  78'

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Venezuela v Sweden

July 16, 2009 11:00

Venezuela	4 – 4	Sweden

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Mexico v South Africa

July 17, 2009 11:00

Mexico	1 – 1	South Africa

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
United Kingdom	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Brazil	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	3
France	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2	3

France v Brazil

July 12, 2009 11:00

France	0 – 3	Brazil

Avi Ran Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Argentina v United Kingdom

July 13, 2009 09:00

Argentina	1 – 1	United Kingdom
Faes	(Report)	Hakim  46'

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Brazil v Argentina

July 15, 2009 16:00

Brazil	0 – 2	Argentina
	(Report)	Rubin Faes  (pen.)

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

United Kingdom v France

18:00

United Kingdom	1 – 2	France
Kurrant	(Report)

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

France v Argentina

July 16, 2009 11:00

France	1 – 2	Argentina
		Faes  (pen.) Lipoff

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Brazil v United Kingdom

July 17, 2009 11:00

Brazil	0 – 2	United Kingdom
	(Report)	Soutar  52' Hakim  70'

Ketzef Field, Haifa Referee: Attendance:

Stage 2

5th place bracket

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	20 July - Neve Shaanan Stadium
	United States	4
	South Africa	1
					22 July - Avi Ran Field
					United States	4
					Australia	1
					Seventh place
	20 July - Neve Shaanan Stadium			22 July - Avi Ran Field
	Canada	0		South Africa	4
	Australia	2			Canada	1

Championship bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	19 July - Avi Ran Field
	Israel	1
					20 July - Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
	South Africa	0
					Israel	0
	19 July - Neve She'anan Stadium
					United Kingdom	1
	United States	0
									22 July - Kiryat Eliezer Stadium
	United Kingdom	2
									United Kingdom	1
	19 July - Avi Ran Field
									Argentina	2
	Mexico	3
					20 July - Neve She'anan Stadium
	Canada	0
					Mexico	0			Third place
	19 July - Neve She'anan Stadium
					Argentina	3
	Argentina	3							Israel	7
	Australia	1							Mexico	1
									22 July - Neve She'anan Stadium

Quarterfinals

Israel v South Africa

2009-07-19

Israel	1 – 0	South Africa
Abd Elhamed  74'

United States v United Kingdom

2009-07-19

United States	0 – 2	United Kingdom
	(Report)	Morris Hakim  78'

Neve She'anan Stadium, Haifa

Argentina v Australia

2009-07-19

Argentina	3 – 1	Australia
Faes OG Rubin		Rischin  10'

Semifinals

Israel v United Kingdom

2009-07-20

Israel	0 – 1	United Kingdom
	(Report)	Sloma  21'

Argentina v Mexico

2009-07-20

Argentina	3 – 0	Mexico
Lipoff Faes Zylberberg

Bronze medal match

Israel v Mexico

2009-07-22

Israel	7 – 1	Mexico
Avitan  11'  22'  30' Moshe  55' Elihan  57'  71' Abd Elhamed  64'	(Report)

Neve She'anan Stadium

Gold medal match

United Kingdom v Argentina

2009-07-22

United Kingdom	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Argentina
Sloma  22'	(Report)	Lipoff  88'
	Penalties
Ellis Sacks Hahn Levack Morris	2 – 3	Salomon Goldberg Cohen Silberstein Loterspil

Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa Referee: Liran Liani (Israel)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's football	Argentina (ARG) Matias Burstein Rodrigo Kotik Brian Gips David Cohen Andres Loterspil Kevin Kogan Nicolas Zuchowicki Gustavo Umansky Ariel Salomon Eitan Silberstein Nicolas Goldberg Marcelo Felder German Zylberberg Martin Feldman Ariel Kaplan Andres Faes Ezequiel Rubin Martin Saban Federico Lipoff Matias Alazraki Coach: Marcelo Katz	United Kingdom (GBR) Andrew Goldman Danny Berliner Daniel Cole Guy Helman Guy Morris David Soutar Michael Sacks Sam Sloma Alex Levack Jonathan Kurrant Scott Shulton Craig Ellis Ben Lauffer Daniel Stanton Michael Warwick Mitchel Hahn Daniel Berg Paul Hakim James Gershfield Matt Stock Coach: Jonathan Kestenbaum	Israel (ISR) Arik Yanko Orel Cohen Ne'eman Hatem Abd Elhamed Hana Nasser Osher Zeitun Sari Falah Rahamim Daniel Dor Malihi Adir Maman Muayan Halaili Nir Biton Barak Moshe Arthur Atzhianov Tzahi Elihan Meir Elkabetz Ilan Rankovitch Philipe Abu-Mana Samir Hakim Alon Torjman Temur Avitan Coach: Eli Ohana

Statistics

Top Scorers

8 goals

• Allan Israel

Footnotes